The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement includes a commitment under the Groundwater Annex to “publish an initial report on the relevant and available groundwater science, and update this report at least once every six years.”  The first report, Groundwater science relevant to the Great Lakes Water Quality: A status report, was released in 2016. […]

Please join us on Thursday, January 23 from 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. eastern / 9:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m. central for a webinar that will provide updates on work under the Nutrients Annex of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. During this webinar we will summarize current conditions in Lake Erie, and you will hear about […]

The 2023 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin, led by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a partnership of climate services organizations in the U.S. and Canada, provides an overview of the climate trends and impacts in the basin for the year, […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. It is published […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

Introduction Under the 2012 Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “the Parties to the Agreement” – the U.S. and Canadian Governments – are to conduct a review of the operation and effectiveness of the Agreement every nine years. The scope and nature of the review are to be determined by the Parties: “Following every third […]

Under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Canada and the United States use an Adaptive Management approach for addressing eutrophication issues in Lake Erie. The Annex 4 (Nutrients) Subcommittee’s Adaptive Management Task Team conducted an evaluation to assess changes in phosphorus loads and progress towards achieving the related Lake Ecosystem Objectives outlined under Annex […]